A recording of Iran’s foreign minister offering a blunt appraisal of diplomacy and the limits of power within the Islamic Republic has been leaked, providing a rare look inside the country’s theocracy …
The Times view on Iran jailing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Nazanin’s Trials
To the shame of the international community Iran was this month elected as a member of the United Nations commission on the status of women. Tehran’s treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shows that …
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran sentences British-Iranian aid worker to another year in jail
An Iranian court has handed British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe a new one-year jail sentence and travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime, her husband said …
Iran’s Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies
Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani.
Leaked Javad Zarif recording stirs hot political debate in Iran
A leaked interview in which Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif frankly discusses behind-the-scenes manoeuvres in Iranian politics has stirred fierce conversati …
Iran’s Zarif criticizes Guards in leaked audio
In a leaked recording, Iran’s top diplomat complained that the nation’s elite Revolutionary Guards had more influence in foreign affairs and the country’s nuclear program than him. On the tape, …
In leaked audio, Iran’s foreign minister laments interference by Revolutionary Guards
The conversation was the latest salvo in what has become an increasingly caustic domestic Iranian debate over reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
Mohammed Javad Zarif Says Russia Wants to Stop U.S., Iran Nuclear Deal in Leaked Interview
Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh did not dispute the tape’s authenticity but said the release of the recording was “illegal,” and “selectively edited.” …
EU begins to flex its muscles on Iran
The EU’s decision to impose restrictive measures on senior Iranian commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the paramilitary Basij and the State Security Force has marked a new phase in …
Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to year in jail for ‘propaganda’ against Iran
Ratcliffe, an Anglo-Iranian charity worker, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison in Iran and banned from leaving the country for a year after being convicted of “propaganda against the [Islamic …